Where Is Diana Death Car Survivor Trevor Rees-Jones Now?

Thursday marks the 20th anniversary of Princess Diana's death. The Princess of Wales died Aug. 31, 1997, from severe injuries obtained through a fatal car crash in Paris' Pont D'Alma tunnel. The car accident also claimed the lives of her boyfriend Dodi Al Fayed and driver Henri Paul.

It's annual resurfacing brings along a variety of conspiracy theories, including the mystery around its lone survivor. Trevor Rees-Jones, known simply as Trevor Rees, served as Al Fayed's bodyguard. He was the only person to survive the fatal car crash.

Rees, 49, may have survived the car crash, but he didn't walk away completely unscathed. Rees, then 29, acquired internal chest injuries and a broken wrist. However, the worst of his injuries included head damage and a crushed face. Surgeons reportedly used 150 pieces of titanium to reconstruct his face; old family photographs were used as a guide.

Rees was fighting for his life a few rooms over from Princess Diana at Pitie-Salpetriere Hospital in Paris. What has Rees been up to following the accident?

Rees wanted to share his experiences from the fatal car crash. The world learned of Rees' side of in the March 2000 memoir, "The Bodyguard's Story: Diana, the Crash, and the Sole Survivor." Moira Johnston, a ghost-writer, helped Rees to write the book. It is rumored that he earned approximately $1.2 million from the book deal.

The book provided a platform for the former bodyguard to tell, for the first time, the events leading up to the Paris crash and the accident itself. Rees also discussed his experience watching over Princess Diana and her sons, Prince William and Prince Harry, in the south of France.

"Telling my experience in a book is the last thing I ever dreamed I'd be doing," Rees wrote in the book's introduction. The ex-bodyguard also spoke of his experience during an appearance on "Larry King Live" March 2000. The episode, aired shortly after his book was published, also detailed his falling out with Al Fayed's father, Mohamed Al Fayed.

Al Fayed's father, an Egyptian businessman who also formerly owned luxury British retailer Harrod's, believed Rees was at fault for the accident.

"I feel quite disappointed why he feels the need to attack me," Rees said of Al Fayed's father. "I don't think that I've done anything to warrant these attacks. He said he paid all of my medical bills which, you know, I asked my lawyer to find out if it was true, and it said it wasn't."

Rees added, "He's since attacked me for — he says causing the accident. And I find it disappointing that he feels the need to do."

Rees split with his first wife, Sue Jones, months before the crash. He got remarried in 2003 to Ann Scott, a teacher. The pair has been married ever since.

The ex-bodyguard played rugby for a North Wales team after recovering from his injuries, according to Yahoo! News. He later set up a security consultant business. However, he was working in Iraq at the time he was called to give his testimony at an inquest. Rees claimed to have vague memories of certain events from the crash, but he confirmed that he was not a participant in a conspiracy to conceal the truth.

Prior to the accident, Rees served as a soldier. He then joined Al Fayed father's security staff. Through his bodyguard post under Al Fayed's father, Rees was then required to serve as the personal bodyguard for his son when he went on vacation with then girlfriend Princess Diana. This position allowed him to see first-hand into the causes and consequences of the Paris crash.

Rees was assigned to watch over the Al Fayed's son. If Princess Diana or her family were in attendance, she would as be included under that security blanket.

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